Final Project - Abstract
Submit an abstract or introduction for your final paper project. Three requirements:
1) What are you doing?
2) Why are you doing it?
3) How do you plan to do it?
250 words minimum
Submission: BlackBoard
Due: 12/3 by class time
Value: 5 pts
1) What are you doing?
2) Why are you doing it?
3) How do you plan to do it?
250 words minimum
Submission: BlackBoard
Due: 12/3 by class time
Value: 5 pts
Assignment 2 - Comparing Media
In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan makes the case that different media/ technological forms have different effects. They rearrange the distribution of senses and can have social, political, economic, and cultural effects. For this assignment, choose two different media of the same kind, ideally an "old" media form and a "new" one. For example, you might choose an "old" media game (e.g. board game) and a "new" one (e.g. video game, VR). Or an "old" social media (e.g. Facebook) and a "new" one (e.g. Instagram). Compare and contrast their formal differences. What senses or other experiences does each emphasize or produce? Can you draw out any implications in the shift from one to the other?
Length: 400 words
Value: 3 points
Submission: BlackBoard Discussion Board
Due: Wednesday, 9/12 by classtime
Length: 400 words
Value: 3 points
Submission: BlackBoard Discussion Board
Due: Wednesday, 9/12 by classtime
Assignment 6 - Social Media Norm Breaching Experiment
Christian Sandvig (via Harold Garfinkel) suggests that one key strategy for uncovering implicit social norms is to breach them--"de-familiarizing everyday life by challenging some unstated assumption [is] a way to discover the existence of hidden norms"
Conduct your own social media norm breaching experiment and describe what you observed.
See a description of social media breaching and some sample experiments from Sandvig here. You can find some more sample experiments here. You can use one of these or design your own.
Length: 300 words
Value: 3 points
Submissions: BlackBoard
Due: Friday, 10/26 by 10:30AM
Conduct your own social media norm breaching experiment and describe what you observed.
See a description of social media breaching and some sample experiments from Sandvig here. You can find some more sample experiments here. You can use one of these or design your own.
Length: 300 words
Value: 3 points
Submissions: BlackBoard
Due: Friday, 10/26 by 10:30AM
EXTRA CREDIT - VR
First Look: Artists' VR (New Museum & Rhizome)
Man Mask, Rachel Rossin
Arcology, Peter Burr
Transdimensional Serpent, Jon Rafman
Away With You, Rindon Johnson
An Elegy for Ancestors, Jayson Musson
Domestika, Jacolby Satterwhite
For info on downloading the app, click here, or you can just visit your app store and search "First Look: Artists VR." Ideally, you would use a VR viewing device, like a Google Cardboard or other VR viewer. However, it's not absolutely necessary.
Provide an interpretation of one of these VR pieces, or two or more if you think comparing several different pieces will lead to insight.
Your interpretation can be about the potential of VR as an artistic medium. Or can be about something the piece seems to be articulating. What is its argument? What is it trying to convey?
You might start by asking yourself: Why VR? Why this particular medium? Does it allow the artist to produce a specific effect not available in other mediums?
Other questions that might help you produce meaning, to reach an interpretation:
What kinds of imagery are common to these pieces and why?
How does the soundtracking or narrating relate to and affect the visual experience?
Is there a narrative? What is that narrative?
What themes are present? What does the piece seem to be saying about them?
Are there characters? Who and why?
What position is the viewer occupying? Is he/she a thing, a subject, or something else? Why?
400 words minimum
Submission: BlackBoard
Due: Tues, 12/18 by noon
Value: 3 points
Man Mask, Rachel Rossin
Arcology, Peter Burr
Transdimensional Serpent, Jon Rafman
Away With You, Rindon Johnson
An Elegy for Ancestors, Jayson Musson
Domestika, Jacolby Satterwhite
For info on downloading the app, click here, or you can just visit your app store and search "First Look: Artists VR." Ideally, you would use a VR viewing device, like a Google Cardboard or other VR viewer. However, it's not absolutely necessary.
Provide an interpretation of one of these VR pieces, or two or more if you think comparing several different pieces will lead to insight.
Your interpretation can be about the potential of VR as an artistic medium. Or can be about something the piece seems to be articulating. What is its argument? What is it trying to convey?
You might start by asking yourself: Why VR? Why this particular medium? Does it allow the artist to produce a specific effect not available in other mediums?
Other questions that might help you produce meaning, to reach an interpretation:
What kinds of imagery are common to these pieces and why?
How does the soundtracking or narrating relate to and affect the visual experience?
Is there a narrative? What is that narrative?
What themes are present? What does the piece seem to be saying about them?
Are there characters? Who and why?
What position is the viewer occupying? Is he/she a thing, a subject, or something else? Why?
400 words minimum
Submission: BlackBoard
Due: Tues, 12/18 by noon
Value: 3 points